GunLab

The cane gun

Steve J. , a friend of gun lab, brought over a few of his toys to show and allow me to photograph.

This is a French 32short S&W cane gun.

You can see the button that is the trigger

The actual fire control and handle part.

A good shot of the firing pin and stop.

The threaded end of the barrel.

The tip of the cane to keep the barrel covered.

You can see the spring clip that keeps the cane tip secure.

close up of the cane tip

It also acts as the extractor

The tips are used to pull out the cartridge from the barrel.

What is really interesting is that the barrel is also smooth bore.

The Ermawerke Carbine

A little while back a very interesting box showed up at the house.

And in it was another box.

But then when it was open you could see that there was plastic wrapped goodies.

Then like magic when the wrapping came off you could see something very interesting. First one.

Then another.

And when all the bundles of plastic were open there were 9.

They are setting at home in the gun room until John decides what and where he wants me to send them, in April.

There is even the ultra rare sniper version.

More to come.

This post actually has more to do with then just the library. All the walls around the patio and the area below it have been sheathed and the windows installed. A great deal of work was accomplished this last weekend.

Started water proofing the new deck.

The cross over between the stairs and the deck was removed to allow me to put new OSB up on the out side wall.

And the first coat of epoxy was put down on the library floor.

Next weekend the door will be moved to the outside wall. With that the lower section will be totally enclosed. A number of other things were also accomplished this last weekend, but that is for another post. Such exciting things as the work on the cnc router, more accomplishments on the VG1-5 and the start on the wood shop over haul and termite eradication. Plus some interesting gun photo’s.

This is so true

I saw this post over at http://12-gauge-rage.tumblr.com/ and it describes my view every Monday.

Just wanted to share a beautiful morning

It is the start of another beautiful day today.

This is the view from my front door.

For those of you living in big European cities.

Time in the fab shop

I did manage to work on a couple of other projects other then the Library. I spent some time working on the new little single burner forge and table.

The old forge.

The new and old ones together.

The new burner

A little video about the progress

The new library part 5

I understand that people are tried of seeing posts on my new library, however it has taken over a great deal of my time so that is what I get to chat about.

When removing the decking what was thought of as only wood rot also turned out to be termites as well. To confirm the actual amount of damage we removed the stucco for the area of the library expansion.

There is a serious termite issue. One that will be address before completion.

The rest of the old decking was removed.

New floor joists were installed and new 1″ plywood added.

As with all projects there were a few set backs.It started raining on Saturday, so then tarps had to be hung to prevent the new decking from getting wet.

Both Saturday and Sunday the deck was worked on. By Sunday evening the first two walls were up and the a small start on the third wall.

It is amazing how these projects take on a life of there own. A quick video of the progress.

The new library part 4

Saturday was spent working on the deck for phase 2 of the library. All new 2×10’s were set in place and 1″ tongue and grove plywood set in place.

With the deck in place there are a couple of small issues that need to be address then the walls for the porch and phase 2 of the library will be built.

The new library floor was acid etched. The next step is to per-treat the floor for the epoxy coating.

Very good video on a carbon fiber stock coat

I came across this video by accent. It is a good video on doing a carbon fiber wrap on a rifle stock.

The New Library part 3

So with the main library getting closer to completion phase 2 has started. The main library has had the outside walls coated as well as the roof.

All the sheet rock is up and painted. The concrete floor has been stripped and de-greased. The last two steps require a 24 wait period between applications.

The final step is to acid etch the concrete in preparation to epoxy coating the floor.

So the second phase has started. The library will also encompass part of the lower deck under the guest house sun patio. It has been on the project list to redo the deck. The lumber has a great deal of water damage and needed to be replaced.